Health Deadly New Fungus Emerging in Oregon Expected to Spread

[Dan]

save the dolphins!

 

[NightShade]

The obvious answer is to cut down all the trees.

but seriously, is this actually real? and anyway, mask = problem put on hold.

 

[Whitesock]

Time to move to the desert.

 

[13lade619]

i hope it doesnt cross over oceans.

 

[WolSHaman]

We must stop this evil environment while we still can!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDhoaXZGJHM&feature=player_embedded

 

[Durandal]

@Renendaru

Wikipedia it or it never existed >;(

Don't be so quick to toot the Wikipedia horn, not all information on that site is even reliable

That sounds awful.
Well, hopefully they come up with a vaccine!

Do you even understand what a vaccine is?

 

[FireCat]

Do you even understand what a vaccine is?

Well, is it a virus? I mean, a virus would be killed of the vaccine?
NO, It can't be hmmm a building?

 

[Azlier]

Fungus != virus.

 

[Wiseman_2]

We need flamethowers.

Lots of them.

 

[Durandal]

Well, is it a virus? I mean, a virus would be killed of the vaccine?
NO, It can't be hmmm a building?

A fungus does not equate to a virus

 

[FireCat]

A fungus does not equate to a virus

Why not? lol

 

[NightShade]

Why not? lol

lol
I don't think it has been decided wether viruses are even alive or not. they are basically bits of RNA floating around. fungi on the other hand are alive and their cells even have cell walls. our cells only have cell membranes since we're animals.

I'm not sure one of our immune cells could really "eat" a fungi cell. vaccines train our immune systems.

 

[Durandal]

lol
I don't think it has been decided wether viruses are even alive or not. they are basically bits of RNA floating around. fungi on the other hand are alive and their cells even have cell walls. our cells only have cell membranes since we're animals.

I'm not sure one of our immune cells could really "eat" a fungi cell. vaccines train our immune systems.

There is no one particular cell, but our body would attack fungi cells the same way it would attack any other foreign invader, with extreme prejudice, the only problem here is...

Antibodies probably wouldn't work on fungi.

Why not? lol

Are you trying to be funny...

 

[FireCat]

Are you trying to be funny...

LOL

Well, It's old but interesting article.

Scientists Develop Fungus-Fighting Vaccine
Although these fungi pose little threat to people with healthy immune systems, they can cause fatal infections in those whose immune systems have been weakened by cancer treatments or post-transplant immunosuppressive therapies. No anti-fungal vaccines are currently available.

The new vaccine was made of a sugar-like molecule called beta-glucan that is found on the cell wall of the fungus and that the fungus needs to grow and survive. To induce a robust immune response to the vaccine, the group attached the relatively innocuous beta-glucan to a protein called diptheria toxin that is known to stimulate the immune system and has been used in other human vaccines.

The vaccine protected rodents from fatal fungal infections by triggering the production of anti-beta-glucan antibodies. These antibodies stuck to the invading fungal cell wall and prevented the fungus from growing. The authors now plan to test the vaccine in humans and hope the results are equally promising

 

[SerraAvenger]

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